New Year's Holiday Challenge

[StirlingMoose]

I had problems with that one too. Now I merely tap the brake (some cars it's more of a lifting off the accelerator than braking) with the car on the left side of the track before the corner and bring the car in towards the inside of the bend without gas (so that the front doesn't understeer - modulate the throttle where necessary to maintain speed) and as soon as you feel the bend open out, accelerate smoothly back out to the left of the track and away we go.

I found that my exit speeds were higher this way rather than massive braking or sliding into the corner.

Doing the 24hr gave me the chance to repeat that corner over and over so that I could push the entry and apex speed to the limit.

I'm interested to know how everyone else takes this corner.👍

Me too. I suspect this is the most important corner to get right as a difference of a few mph at the start of the straight makes quite a big difference to your time. I tend to take it too conservatively, to avoid running wide and having to lift, and end up not using the whole width of the track on the exit. Judging the right point to apply full power seems to elude me due to the lack of landmarks. More practice needed.

 

[zuperkiwi]

Thanks to the ones that suggested the Mine's BNR34 for the Ring too - Finished the Ring with a 600pp Mine's BNR34 on Racing Softs.

You're welcome 👍
The Mine's BNR34 is a great car.
In my opinion it handles better than a GT-R, and that says a lot

 

[cragles1980]

First post so be gentle!!

I finally managed to do Suzuka in the Nomad Diablo, after playing around with the setup since I found it really tricky in the wet. I then stumbled upon a Suzuka race whereby it started raining on lap 4 instead of 3 and didn't get wetter than 30%, actually stopping raining on lap 8. (Previously it had always started raining on lap 3 and got up to 57% wet). Managed to win by 12 seconds staying on on Soft slicks.

Completed Spa first (well second time after a hasty restart to change the gearing) in a 787B on rain tyres. So much faster than the other cars as the race wore on, even overtaking 3 at one corner (pouhon?) in the wet! not sure how much I won by since it stopped counting, maybe 40+ seconds!?

Doesn't spa look beautiful when the rain stops and the sun comes out at the end of the race???

I've not attempted the other race yet but will probably try it in my GTR first.

I've only managed bronze in the time trial so far too....

Update - managed to complete Nurburgring race first time in my tuned road GT-R, and have repeated Spa several times since it's awesome in the 787B, winning by over 1 min 40 seconds last attempt...

Also just about scraped Gold in the time trial with some coaching from my brother who, it seems is a much better "driver" than me!

 

[Dolph Drago]

I had problems with that one too. Now I merely tap the brake (some cars it's more of a lifting off the accelerator than braking) with the car on the left side of the track before the corner and bring the car in towards the inside of the bend without gas (so that the front doesn't understeer - modulate the throttle where necessary to maintain speed) and as soon as you feel the bend open out, accelerate smoothly back out to the left of the track and away we go.

I found that my exit speeds were higher this way rather than massive braking or sliding into the corner.

Doing the 24hr gave me the chance to repeat that corner over and over so that I could push the entry and apex speed to the limit.

I'm interested to know how everyone else takes this corner.👍

I approach it the same way. Sometimes I take it a little too easy around it though. I don't know how many times I've gone into the corner slightly too fast and spent the entire corner sideways with my left rear wheel off the track. It's incredibly difficult to get back onto the track there if you slide off, even if it's just the rear wheel.

 

[Giulietta73]

I approach it the same way. Sometimes I take it a little too easy around it though. I don't know how many times I've gone into the corner slightly too fast and spent the entire corner sideways with my left rear wheel off the track. It's incredibly difficult to get back onto the track there if you slide off, even if it's just the rear wheel.

Same here!

But when you get the entry speed right, the car seems to stick to the inside line like glue - that's when you know you've nailed it!!! (just wish it would happen every time!!)

 

[steliosthem]

New Year's Holiday Challenge seasonal disappeared from the seasonal events menu! Was there a time limit of availability?! Even so it should lock rather than disappear. Has that happened to anyone else?

Ok, my mistake it was available until 10 January. Which is today, too bad, I would have completed it today. Hm... I wonder if changing the date in the PS3 can reverse that...